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On Stage

Inquiries about commissions, freelance work and collaborations should be made using the contact form.

Upcoming and currently touring shows:

Boys Don’t

Tanaka is a currently performing in Boys Don’t, a touring production for ages 8-12 about boys and crying for Papertale Productions in partnership with Half Moon Theatre. Boys Don’t was livestreamed at the Brighton Festival and is available to view online.

Past Productions:

This is How it Happens

Robert Thorpe-Woods as ‘Boy Blue’. Photograph by Kenneth Jay

‘This is is How it Happens’ is a semi autobiographical play about men recovering from sexual abuse. The play is available to be produced as a short monologue or full length piece for three actors and has received the following productions.

“Lyrical, beautiful but also honest, and ultimately, more about survival than abuse.”

Place to Be: The Canal

Tanaka’s short play ‘A Nice Girl Like You’ was performed by Jasmin Gleeson at the Rosemary Branch Theatre as part of Place to Be: the Canal. Directed by Henry C. Kempels and produced by Anima Theatre Company.

Shambala Festival

From Here

You don’t know this but your grandad fought for this country for years. You don’t know the first thing about what it means to belong to this family, to belong here.

Who says I want to belong? She was your mother, isn’t that what you said?

As part of Goblin Baby Theatre’s night of responses to the Brexit and Trump phenomena, ‘From Here’ finds Greg and long lost half sister Sophia searching for their mother’s pearls before her funeral. He’s white, she’s not. He’s conservative, she’s not. He’s leave, she’s remain. But together they have to figure out what it means to be from here- and decide where exactly they’re going.